How Wimbledon has gone high tech
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week Tech Tent comes from the Wimbledon tennis championships, in London, and finds out about the sophisticated AI systems powering match predictions, with Kevin Farrar, from IBM. Alexandra Willis, Communications and Marketing Director at Wimbledon, discusses how this most traditional of tournaments is venturing ever furter into online and virtual worlds. And away from the tennis, cyber reporter Joe Tidy explains the latest steps Apple is taking against Spyware like Pegasus- and brings us an intriguing update on a cyber attack on an Iranian steel mill.
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| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
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| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. The new series of the infinite monkey cage listen on radio four and BBC sounds welcome to a special edition of tech tent with me Zoe Kleinman we've set up our virtual canvas this week at Wimbledon in London, home of the world's famous tennis championships. |
| 0:38.2 | Thousands of tennis fans flock here to see their favourite players or follow along on screen |
| 0:42.3 | wherever they are in the world. |
| 0:44.2 | But for those who can't make it here in person, the All England Lawn Tennis Club, |
| 0:48.1 | which organises Wimbledon, is experimenting with new ways to bring you here virtually. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm Alexandra Willis and I'm the Communications and Marketing Director at Wimbledon. |
| 1:01.6 | So here we are by the Hill, once known as Murray Mount, also known as Hedman Hill, |
| 1:05.7 | now recreated in virtual reality. Tell me about that. |
| 1:09.7 | So the Hill has become one of Wimbledon's most iconic |
| 1:12.7 | fan destinations, something that people now queue up outside the grounds just to go and have the |
| 1:17.7 | opportunity to sit on, which is amazing. And one of the things that we've tried to do is make |
| 1:22.8 | sure that we're not just delivering great experiences for people here at Wimbledon but we're being able to share |
| 1:29.1 | that with other fans around the world so we thought what better way to try and tiptoe into the |
| 1:35.0 | metaverse than creating the hill in a virtual world so we've got the virtual hill and if you join the |
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